Chapter 1 Biographical Notes 1
Chapter 2 Animating Commercials for Advertising Agencies 15
Chapter 3 The Monk and the Fish (1994) – The Rise above Dualism 25
Chapter 4 Father and Daughter (2002) – Biography of Longing 43
Chapter 5 The Aroma of Tea (2006) – A Blissful Experience 75
Chapter 6 Coronation of a Dream The Making of The Red Turtle – Michael Dudok de Wit's 10 Year-Long “Exciting Challenge”, set by Studio Ghibli and Completed in Europe 83
Chapter 7 Epilogue by Yuri Norstein 117
Biography
Andrijana Ružić graduated in History and Criticism of Art at the Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy. She specialized in History of animated film under professor Giannalberto Bendazzi. The subject of her thesis was the opus of John and Faith Hubley. In the last six years she is a curator of the program dedicated to animated film on the International Comics Festival in Belgrade. She lives in Milan, Italy where she continues to publish and write studies, articles and essays about animated films of independent authors.
